From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 10 11:46:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C15E37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA8343E4A for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 420 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 19:46:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2003 19:46:14 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0AJk1UT091005; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474603CE9E24@waexch1.qgraph.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Schroeder, Aaron" Subject: RE: creating partions in RC-2 install Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Geoff Buckingham Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Jan-2003 Schroeder, Aaron wrote: > I have this problem as well on any alpha that I have installed 5.0RC2 on > (5305, 2100, 4000, Miata). > > Just an FYI that it is not limited to Mr. Buckingham. I just checked in a fix that I will try to get merged in time for 5.0. RC3 will still have the bug. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Baldwin [mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:02 AM > To: Geoff Buckingham > Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: creating partions in RC-2 install > > > > On 10-Jan-2003 Geoff Buckingham wrote: >> >> I suspect this is my problem, not an RC-2 issue but, >> can anybody else create new partitions in sysinstall. >> >> Starting with a 'naked' disk straigh out of its >> sealed anti-static bag I cant create any partitions. >> >> This is on a Alphaserver 800 5/333, booting from CD, >> if nobody else sees this I will try this on a NONAME >> based system at the weekend. > > Yes, I have seen this before. I think I may have a fix for it > though. Need to test it locally on an i386 machine first. > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message